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If I won the lottery

Robert Crampton

Saturday March 27 2010, 11.03am, The Times

Robert Crampton

Saturday March 27 2010, 11.03am, The Times

I was delighted to see that a chap who won the lottery recently said he was going to spend part of his winnings on a wind tunnel to practise his free-fall parachuting. A wind tunnel in this context is a chamber in which a vertical blast of air, a blast of air powerful enough to support your body, surges up from the floor. I saw one once in Milton Keynes and it looked a right laugh. Good bloke, I thought, good luck to him.

Residual Methodism prevents me from taking part in the lottery, yet if a shower of free money should ever fall on me from the skies, I wouldn’t buy a racehorse, I wouldn’t buy a Rolls-Royce, and I wouldn’t, on reflection, buy